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At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.